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ADOPTION OF AIRPORT FACILITY ZONING MAP (B)
Ordinance No. 0-06-77, Petition No. 55ZON-06PB An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, relating to the Gainesville Regional Airport; adopting a new Airport Facility Zoning Map that delineates and establishes the various development and non-development areas of the airport, as shown on the map; providing directions to the City Manager; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
STAFF REPORT
This petition, if approved, will meet a previously unmet land development code requirement for a zoning map pertaining to the Airport Facilities (AF) zoning district. The 1,346-acre AF district comprises the majority of the land that is occupied by the Gainesville Regional Airport, and is used for commercial and general aviation, airport-related support services (including car rentals), other aviation-related businesses, and open space.
Except for a relatively small portion of the AF zoning district that is located on the west side of Waldo Road directly across from the airport, this zoning district is located north of Northeast 39th Avenue and east of Waldo Road, south of the Airport Industrial Park, and west of Gum Root Swamp.
The majority of the subject property is within the Tertiary and Secondary Zones of the Murphree Wellfield Protection Area. The subject property is within Zone A of the Transportation Currency Exception Area. Transportation and all other applicable concurrency requirements will have to be met at the time of development plan approvals for the subject property.
The Land Development Code currently requires an airport layout zoning map that shows buildings and their approximate square footages. The proposed Airport Facility Zoning Map instead identifies sub-areas in which the type of allowable development, infrastructure or facility that can occur in each sub-area is described in the section of the Land Development Code that pertains to the Airport Facility zoning district. The proposed Airport Facility Zoning Map plus the text changes in related Petition 56TCH-06 PB will, if approved, provide a codified standard for review by City staff of future development plans at the airport. The map and the related text changes to the Land Development Code were developed by the applicant with input from the Planning Division, which consulted with the City Attorney's office during the drafting of the proposed ordinance(s).
The Plan Board heard the petition and recommended that it be approved.
Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on May 30, 2006. Letters were mailed to surrounding property owners on May 31, 2006. The Plan Board held a public hearing on June 15, 2006. The City Commission held a public hearing on July 24, 2006 and directed the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance.
CITY ATTORNEY MEMORANDUM
The City Commission, at its meeting of July 24, 2006, directed the City Attorney's Office to prepare and the Clerk of the Commission to advertise the proposed ordinance. If the ordinance is adopted on first reading, it will be heard on April 23, 2007 on Second Reading.